ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xxv
... happy , and he enjoyed something of the renown which was rightly his . Various well - known men used to visit him — notably Dryden , who on one of his visits asked and received permission to dramatise Paradise Lost . Milton died in 1674 ...
... happy , and he enjoyed something of the renown which was rightly his . Various well - known men used to visit him — notably Dryden , who on one of his visits asked and received permission to dramatise Paradise Lost . Milton died in 1674 ...
Page xxxii
... happy close . The source of this legend , which had been handled by other poets , was the History of Geoffrey of Monmouth1 . In this important part of Comus the influence of Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess is unmistakeable . This ...
... happy close . The source of this legend , which had been handled by other poets , was the History of Geoffrey of Monmouth1 . In this important part of Comus the influence of Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess is unmistakeable . This ...
Page xxxviii
... happy , far - off things of Athens and Rome - these qualities , that belong mainly to art , are held together and heightened by a perfect genuineness of emotion which is the outcome of sheer inspiration . Above all , Milton gives us ...
... happy , far - off things of Athens and Rome - these qualities , that belong mainly to art , are held together and heightened by a perfect genuineness of emotion which is the outcome of sheer inspiration . Above all , Milton gives us ...
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... happy trial prove most glory . But evil on itself shall back recoil , And mix no more with goodness , when at last , Gathered like scum , and settled to itself , It shall be in eternal restless change Self - fed and self - consumed : if ...
... happy trial prove most glory . But evil on itself shall back recoil , And mix no more with goodness , when at last , Gathered like scum , and settled to itself , It shall be in eternal restless change Self - fed and self - consumed : if ...
Page 37
... happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye , Up in the broad fields of the sky ; There I suck the liquid air , All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus , and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree . Along the ...
... happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye , Up in the broad fields of the sky ; There I suck the liquid air , All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus , and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree . Along the ...
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Adonis Æneid allusion Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charmed chastity Circe classical Comus crown dance daughter Earl of Bridgewater Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite Germ Glossary goddess gods hath Heaven hence Henry Wotton Homer honour Il Penseroso influence Italy Jonson King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes's legend Locrine Lord Lord Brackley Ludlow Castle Lycidas lyric Masque Masson metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream Milton nature night noun nymph Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase piece pleasure poem poet poetic poetry probably Puritanism reference rhyme rhythm river Sabrina Sabrina fair Samson Agonistes says scene sense Shakespeare Shepheards Calender shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul speaks Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou Thyrsis trochee verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth